What is missing here in an otherwise inciteful essay are four things that come immediately to mind and apparently are not as detectable as far away as Australia.
First, Trump has NOT been like any other president in that he has ripped off he mask to reveal the true ugly face of American imperialism and national chauvinism which one president after another, and most notably, Obama had disguised.
Second, he removed the lid from the garbage can which had 'contained' the white supremacist racism that has been a cornerstone of the US existence from the beginning so that only those who had been subjected to its violence were fully aware of it.
Third, his cabinet appointments were clearly intended to set back or erase environmental standards that had been steadily improving in the US since Richard Nixon introduced the Environmental Protection Act 50 years ago, and finally, with guidance from the reactionary Federalist Society and a pliant, Republican-controlled Senate, he was able to appoint over 200 federal judges, known for their right-wing leanings, to lifetime positions, including three to the Supreme Court, which is destined to have a negative impact on the federal court system and its decisions for decades.
What is missing here in an otherwise inciteful essay are four things that come immediately to mind and apparently are not as detectable as far away as Australia.
First, Trump has NOT been like any other president in that he has ripped off he mask to reveal the true ugly face of American imperialism and national chauvinism which one president after another, and most notably, Obama had disguised.
Second, he removed the lid from the garbage can which had 'contained' the white supremacist racism that has been a cornerstone of the US existence from the beginning so that only those who had been subjected to its violence were fully aware of it.
Third, his cabinet appointments were clearly intended to set back or erase environmental standards that had been steadily improving in the US since Richard Nixon introduced the Environmental Protection Act 50 years ago, and finally, with guidance from the reactionary Federalist Society and a pliant, Republican-controlled Senate, he was able to appoint over 200 federal judges, known for their right-wing leanings, to lifetime positions, including three to the Supreme Court, which is destined to have a negative impact on the federal court system and its decisions for decades.